What are the options after taking the certificate to get “working from home” assignments”?
Companies only give off site, work-from-home work to very experienced technical writers who have written many online Help, Web-based Help samples for many high-tech companies, and long-term jobs for ten years. To get 100% off site work, you must have many impressive PDF files of user instructions you wrote while working in Technical Publications departments at well-known software or hardware companies. Even with that experience, our clients do not like it when the technical writer demands to work off site. Such demands usually result in the client cancelling the contract early. I remember a large Company in Silicon Valley, a client of ours, where the editor worked at home in Boston, one of the tech writers worked in L.A., and another tech writer worked in Arizona. Their customer instructions were useless. The writers had never looked at the product, self tested their instructions on the product, talked face-to-face with a developer to find out what customers had to do to install, integ
